Sentences with phrase «of films about»

In the last few years, there's been a small explosion of films about Orthodox Jewish communities — especially about the lives of women.

Talking of love, there's an argument to be made that Inherent Vice forms a trilogy of films about coiled homoerotic urges.

The third in a series of films about Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), loquacious lovers who meet and spend a memorable day and night together in Before Sunrise, then reunite for another all - nighter years later in Before Sunset, Before Midnight picks up with the two living together, raising twin daughters and sharing custody of Jesse's son from a previous marriage.

Through the years, the medium of cinema has given us plenty of films about hurricanes and tornadoes (The Perfect Storm, Twister, Into the Storm), and plenty more about heists (Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, Reservoir Dogs).

In part for that reason, I wouldn't rank it in the top tier of films about journalism — Spotlight, The Insider, All the President's Men — although it is solidly in the tier immediately below.

Additional revival screenings will include Orson Welles» «Too Much Johnson,» while the «Backlot» program of films about artists will feature Walter Fasano's «Bertolucci on Bertolucci,» Chuck Workman's «Magician» and Ethan Hawke's «Seymour.»

We've seen a lot of films about the cult experience — some of them are good, some bad, but none are as intensely felt as Martha Marcy May Marlene.

It's one of those films about which it's easy to say «It looks great, but...» The style and animation here is typically phenomenal, with great character design and detail, and that may be enough for you.

Bridget Jones's Baby, the latest installment in what's turned out to be a trilogy of films about the «patron saint of singletons,» has just birthed its first trailer.

Elle Fanning, an actress often at the center of films about young people (such as Super 8, The Boxtrolls, and the upcoming How To Talk To Girls At Parties), will now employ her bright - eyed stare and bulbous tears in service of adapting a bestselling YA novel.

by Walter Chaw A year after a glut of films about the past being wilfully stifled by the present, find Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated and David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, literal calls to awake following the nightmare of the night before — or, better, avenues through which we might recognize that suppressing a collective shadow mainly serves to nourish it until it explodes, monstrous, back into our consciousness.

Like Tangerine, Baker films with a sun - dappled luminosity that's all but anathema in the European art house tradition of films about poverty.

There's a clunky unevenness to «Young Ones,» another in the seemingly endless line of films about earth's grim future.

Also newly added are four French films starring Josephine Baker, including Zou Zou (France, 1934, with subtitles) and Princess Tam Tam (France, 1935, with subtitles), and a collection of films about the dark side of married life, among them Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage (Sweden, 1973, with subtitles) with Liv Ullman, Michelangelo Antonioni's La notte (Italy, 1961, with subtitles) with Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau, and John Cassavettes's Faces (1968, R) with Gena Rowlands.

But rather than explore what AI means for the future of humanity, and how humans would interact with it (or possibly reject it), the film becomes another in the recent line of films about the hopeless nerd who falls prey to an apparently manipulative woman.

Sebastián Lelio has made a name for himself as a director not just of films about women but of films about women on the edge.

And you could even lump The Post in with the cadre of films about women striking back at the patriarchy through Kay Graham's willful choice to ignore the advice of her (male) lawyers and board members and publish the Pentagon Papers.

Scarcely decorated, the film was playing in just five theaters when it surprised the pundits who predicted Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, the third in a series of films about the West Memphis Three, to take home that honor.

Scores of films about to premiere there remain free.

There has been no shortage of films about the life of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black, democratically elected president.

This year's Oscar documentary feature race is full of films about musicians both tortured and triumphant

There have been hundreds of films about life after war.

We've seen hundreds of films about the Second World War, usually focussing on those on the front line, or the millions of minorities who lost their lives under the Nazi regime, yet films focussing on the ordinary German civilians seem to be few and far between.

From the hopeful spirit of Spider - Man: Homecoming to the dreariness of Justice League, there were plenty of films about iconic characters saving the day.

With an initial trailer that made it look like nothing but a generic horror film (until a second trailer spoiled a little too much), this film just seemed like another tired entry in the long history of films about promiscuous and dimwitted teens just waiting to meet their gruesome end.

With the centenary of the First World War now up and running we can expect a plethora of films about that dreadful conflict to emerge over the next couple of years but Testament of Youth has set a very high bar indeed.

There is a disproportionate number of films about women in the lineup, which seems to indicate that the film that will benefit most from that would be Lady Bird.

There's a real paucity of films about our venomous culture of self - hate and the tyranny of appearance, and a time or two Miss Congeniality seems on the verge of saying something with its odd voyeuristic device of having Gracie wander around with a P.O.V. camera, but in the end the picture is all lip service paid to the altar of sneering asides and being a magnificent prick.

If there is a sucker born every minute, then the same can also be said of films about confidence tricksters.

Part heist flick and part history lesson, Closer to the Moon is best viewed as an entertaining, albeit flawed, entry in the sub-sub-genre of films about the aftermath of WWII.

It's like saying the Academy doesn't like movies about South Africa just because they didn't nominate «Invictus» while forgetting that they also nominated «District 9» out of a very slim field of films about that topic.

The good news and bad news is the same: Churchill, starring Brian Cox, is a worthy addition to the considerable canon of films about the great statesman (the greatest of the British, many say), but it also doesn't go beyond the best of the many bios that have already hit screens big and small (with stars like Albert Finney, Richard Burton and Brendan Gleeson as the British leader).

Horror films in general belong to the sensualists, but that's doubly true of films about the vampire myth, which mingle sex and death into seductive entrancement.

It was a suitable conclusion to two days of films about friends, conversations and alcohol, which we were happy to share with Andrew during his first visit to Toronto.

There is a sub-canon of films about alcohol as deep and as dark as a barrel of bourbon, from «Lost Weekend» to «Days of Wine and Roses» to «Trees Lounge.»

For fans of the genial, garrulous Gold, of Los Angeles culture or of films about food, City of Gold will easily merit four stars and its 90 - minute length.

I'm not a big fan of films about spousal abuse or rape, so I can't in all clear conscience give this a high rating.

The Disaster Artist deservingly stands in the great tradition of films about filmmaking, both doc and docudrama.

A significant film ideologically, this right - wing revenge crimer catapulted Clint Eastwood to major stardom and launched a whole cycle of films about taking the law into your hands.

A slew of films about presidents over the past few years has likely contributed to the popularity of using presidents» names as baby names.

Hollywood has churned out a slew of films about impending birth but our list...

I find it fascinating when writers and directors and even producers of films about real people in the Bible read into what the people were like and how they fill in the gaps of the dialog, some I like, others I disagree with, but it allows me to put flesh and blood on their bones.

Despite the massive publicity the documentary received after the discovery was announced, the Smithsonian Channel has delayed the release of the film about the Coptic fragment with the phrase, «Jesus said to them, «My wife...» to wait for further testing on the fragment.

It is the title of a film about a fishing expedition from the 1990's.

Graziano: We're both music fans and (Mates) had this song that really fit with this one section of the film about the kids from Tilden (High School) and we thought we'd ask.

Renée Zellweger is the charming modern heroine of this film about a woman deciding which man is right for her, her flirtatious boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) or her awkward and handsome family friend, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).

«The Little Hours» Director Jeff Baena continues to surprise, this time with a quiet riot of a film about extremely misbehaving nuns in an Italian hamlet.

A real nail - biter of a film about a naval destroyer, captained by Robert Mitchum, playing cat and mouse during WWII with a German U-Boat, captained by Curt Jurgens.

In particular, Chaplin's impassioned speech at the end of the film about war, love and peace.

The Rider is as beautiful of a film about horses as it about humans.